Terminology

The Backs — The backs of the riverside colleges, where the river runs between the colleges and Queens’ Road

Bedder — A cleaner who empties your bins, cleans your room and gives you fresh bedding. No Newnham accommodation apart from the Dorothy Garrod Building has bedders.

Bop — Party

Cam — Abbreviated way of saying Cambridge

Cindies — The name Cambridge students call the Ballares nightclub

Come up — to come to Cambridge

Compsci — (pronounced Comp-ski) Computer Science Tripos

DoS — Director of Studies

Ents — Short for “Entertainments”, refers to the entertainment put on by the JCR Ents team.

Freps — Short for “First Year Reps”. Members of the JCR Committee in charge of making sure the freshers have a good time and are looked after well.

Godown— to leave Cambridge

Gyp room— Small kitchen shared by students

Hall — The place where we eat (other colleges often call this the buttery or cafeteria). Also refers to the hall where formal dinners take place (since it’s the same place).

JCR –– Junior Common Room. This is the term for the common room next to the bar, the general term for all undergraduate students as well as a shortened term for the JCR committee. Similarly, there is an MCR (mature) for graduate students, and SCR (the fellows), but no one really calls them that.

Life — The name Cambridge students call the club actually named Kuda.

Mathmo — Student studying mathematics

MCR –– Master Common Room. The term for the graduate common room, the general term for all graduate students as well as the term for the MCR committee.